• Applied Math Seminar: Angel Chavez (Pomona)

    Shanahan 2407 at Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Randomized Sums of Graph Spectra Abstract: The adjacency matrix of an Erdős-Rényi-Gilbert graph is a random symmetric matrix whose entries are Bernoulli random variables. These entries, modulo the constraints […]

  • Prof. Edouard Oudet

    Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College, and Zoom Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Shape Optimization: Old and New Speaker: Edouard Oudet,  LJK, Université Grenoble Alpes Abstract: We first introduce what is shape Optimization and the most classical problems of the field like the […]

  • Applied Math Seminar: Jahrul Alum (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

    Shanahan 2407 at Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Data-driven large eddy simulation of atmospheric turbulence Abstract: Over the last few years, machine learning has been critical in science and engineering and emerged as a data-driven turbulence model. […]

  • Prof. Kate Petersen

    Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College, and Zoom Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Decision Problems in Low-Dimensional Topology Speaker: Kate Petersen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, CSU, University of Minnesota Duluth Abstract: Due to Perelman’s proof of the Geometrization conjecture every closed 3-manifold can […]

  • Confronting the Legacy of the Human Betterment Foundation at Caltech 

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    The Human Betterment Foundation was a pro-eugenics think-tank operating in the 1930s and early 1940s out of Pasadena, California. Its aim was to influence public and medical opinion in favor […]

  • Applied Math Seminar: Junshan Lin (Auburn)

    Shanahan 2407 at Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Scattering Resonances Through Subwavelength Holes and Their Applications in Imaging and Sensing Abstract: The so-called extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) through metallic nanoholes has triggered extensive research in modern plasmonics […]

  • Applied Math Seminar: Juergen Kritschgau (Carnegie Mellon)

    Shanahan 2407 at Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Using Mutual Information of Hypergraph Compressions for Clustering Abstract: Hypergraphs are often used to represent higher order observed relationships between subjects of study. In particular, the vertices of a […]

  • Prof. Jack Wesley

    Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College, and Zoom Claremont, CA, United States

    Speaker: Jack Wesley, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis